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From: kim@cs.uwa.oz.au (Kim Shearer)
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Subject: Re: Turbo the standard? I think not. (was Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:)))
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Date: 10 May 91 08:54:59 GMT
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hvozda@mirkwood.endor.cs.psu.edu (Eric S Hvozda) writes:

>In article <1494@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes:
>>I have a decidedly PC-oriented viewpoint in this area.  Turbo IS the
>>standard Pascal, IMHO.  Other Pascals need to change to the Turbo way
>>of doing things. (With exception of machine-specifics).  When I
>>program in "standard" Pascal I get completely lost because you can't
>>do ANYTHING in it!

>Turbo is NOT standard.  Since when is a ELSE on a CASE statement standard?
>If one knows standard PASCAL, turbo is nothing.  BTW, the type STRING(n) 
>is not standard either.  The standard way is PACKED ARRAY [1..x] OF string
>where string = PACKED ARRAY [1..n] OF CHAR;  What is the reasoning behind
>saying that Turbo is the standard?  Given it is used widely, but wide usage
>does not make a standard.
>--
>Ack!                             esh101@psuvm.psu.edu             ESH101@PSUVM
>hvozda@vivaldi.psu.edu           hvozda@endor.cs.psu.edu          DoD #0217

  I am afraid that there is a standard for Pascal. The world will not
  change just because you like Turbo. Other Pascals do not _need_ to
  change at all, especially to a Turbo/Borland fast and dirty 
  approach.

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